Biography

Laura Choate, Ed.D., LPC-S has 15 years of experience as a counselor educator at Louisiana
State University and 16 years as a Licensed Professional Counselor. She is the author
of four books: Girls and Women’s Wellness: Contemporary Counseling Issues and Interventions
(2008, American Counseling Association), Eating Disorders and Obesity: A Counselor’s
Guide to Prevention and Treatment (edited; 2013, American Counseling Association),
Adolescent Girls in Distress: A Guide to Mental Health Treatment and Prevention (2013,
Springer Publications), and Swimming Upstream: Parenting Girls for Resilience in a
Toxic Culture (release date November, 2015, Oxford University Press). She has 40 publications
in journals and in books, most of which have been related to girls’ and women’s wellness.
She served as guest editor for the 2012 themed issue on eating disorders in the Journal
of Counseling and Development and was awarded the 2013 Best Practices Award by the
American Counseling Association for her work in the area of eating disorders treatment.

In addition, she is a former editor of the Journal of College Counseling, was twice
the chair of the ACA Publications Committee. She was twice appointed to serve on the
Louisiana Licensed Professional Counselors Board of Examiners and is the current Board
Chair and the Chair of the Discipline Committee that is responsible for all to the
ethical violation charges filed against LPCs in the state of Louisiana. She is the
past recipient of the American College Counseling Association Research Award, the
LSU Phi Kappa Phi Non-tenured Faculty Award for Humanities and Social Sciences, and
the 2014 College of Human Sciences and Education Distinguished Research Award.

ACES Research Grant Recipient, Association for Counselor Education and Supervision.
Award for proposal research, "The faculty advisor role: Implications for enhanced
program accountability." April 2001.

Service Learning Grant Recipient, Louisiana State University. Award for proposed service
learning project, "Community service to enhance group leadership development: A collaboration
with Prevent Child Abuse Louisiana." February, 2001.

ACES Research Grant Recipient, Association for Counselor Education and Supervision.
Award for proposal research by Hensley, L. G., Smith, S. L. "Practices and procedures
regarding the assessment of student professional development in CACREP-approved programs."
April 1999.

Selected Presentations

Invited Presentations:

Choate, L. (February, 2013). Treatment for Depression in Girls and Women. Invited
webinar presentation to 324 international and national mental health professionals.
Sponsored by American Counseling Association webinar series on treatments for depression.